The Robotic Industries Association (RIA) has named Esben Østergaard the recipient of the latest Engelberger Robotics Award. Østergaard spearheads the development of Universal Robots’ collaborative robot arms representing one of the most significant technology breakthroughs coming out of the robotics community in decades. The Engelberger Awards Dinner and Ceremony will be on Wednesday, June 20,…

Researchers are hoping to impart robots and other autonomous systems with the ability of self-assessment. Robots are ill-equipped to predict how well they can perform a task, or to sense if a task is going well, or even to know whether they did a good job once a task is completed, said Aaron Steinfeld, associate research…

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) technology will be used in two pilot programs with large scale commercial growers in California. A partnership agreement has been announced between ASI, New Holland Agriculture, and E. & J. Gallo Winery, the largest family-owned winery in the world, to operate the autonomous vehicles in their vineyard operations. Similarly, there has…

Navigating roads less traveled in self-driving cars is a difficult task. One reason is that there aren’t many places where self-driving cars can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their fleets in major cities where they’ve spent countless hours meticulously labeling the exact 3-D positions of lanes, curbs, off-ramps, and stop signs. “The cars…

Agility Robotics announced at the Robotics Summit & Showcase two free simulators for its Cassie bipedal robot. The simulators will help evaluate the physical capabilities of the Cassie bipedal robot and test control methods. In the opening keynote of the Robotics Summit, Agility Robotics co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton said a simulation library using MuJoCo…